Perth teachers have described AI and the rise of deepfakes as an urgent issue confronting today’s teenagers, amid an explosion in the creation of digitally altered intimate images.
Rhianna Mitchell
Porn and ‘AI-powered manipulation’ will still be able to reach children’s inboxes in Australia’s under 16s social media ban, as experts warn parents still need to teach digital literacy.
Caitlyn Rintoul
A local council has taken drastic action to stop a beloved pastime – which has been around for generations – amid complaints of ratepayers footing the bill for damages.
Emma Kirk
Australia’s looming social media ban for under-16s could be a chance to make young people the most online savvy cohort yet or a disaster if it amounts to ‘hitting the pause button’.
Kate Emery
One of Britain’s leading nuclear scientists says Australia will face consequences if it continues to reject nuclear energy.
Jessica Wang
As Artificial Intelligence continues to develop at a rapid pace, OpenAI has released a ‘significant’ upgrade with the newest GPT-5 model.
Fraser Williams
Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes says he is determined to stick around at the software giant while sharing an upbeat view of artificial intelligence, which one analyst said was at odds with the market.
Danielle Le Messurier
Australia's information commissioner is suing Optus over a 2022 data breach that impacted millions and resulted in private data being published on the dark web.
Adrian Black
Optus is being sued over the 2022 data breach that exposed the personal data of 9.5 million people.
Blair Jackson
Thousands of WA parents have vowed to delay giving their children smartphones until at least high school, as a grass roots movement gathers momentum across the country.
A major overhaul of Medicare’s digital services will make it easier for millions of Aussies to have access from their phones.
It’s clunky, flawed and late. But this law might be the best chance we have to protect kids before the next algorithm finds them.
Mark Riley
How dare the commission propose that the country’s writers, filmmakers and musicians simply lie down in the path of the AI monolith that is coming for them like the boulder came for Indiana Jones.
Year 10 students from Rockingham Senior High School were invited to Boom Logistics in East Rockingham in anticipation of its hybrid crane exhibit at this years Resource Technology Showcase.
Ava Berryman
Curious residents took to Facebook about 9.30pm to talk about the bright light they saw zoom through the sky.
Caitlin Vinci
The opposition’s top numbers man has given a sobering assessment of Australia’s ability to protect content makers from data-hungry artificial intelligence.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer and Jessica Wang
WA’s peak lobby group for musicians has called on the government to strengthen copyright protections to stop tech goliaths wanting to mine music content to feed their AI platforms.
New research has revealed that a worrying amount of Australian children are turning to AI for emotional support.
Amy Cavender
Market operator ASX has been forced to reverse over $400 million in wrongly traded TPG Telecom shares after incorrectly tagging the telco in Infomedia’s takeover deal with private equity firm TPG Capital.
Cheyanne Enciso
E-Safety commissioner Julie Inman-Grant has slammed social media giants for “turning a blind eye” on child sexual abuse and exploitation.
A phenomenon which only occurs once every two-and-a-half years will be observable in Australian skies towards the end of August.
Jack Nivison
AI and big data could be a $116 billion boost for Australia over the next 10 years, the Productivity Commission has declared as it backs giving shoppers, farmers and tenants more control of their information.
Matt Mckenzie
It comes after the mayor defended the town’s decision to terminate the lease and not provide an extension despite it being expected to create dead zones for surrounding customers.
Sophie Gannon
A First Nations group has lodged a last-ditch effort to stop a controversial 63,000-seat Olympic stadium from going ahead due to concerns for a “significant” stretch of public land.
Blake Antrobus
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